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07-06-2025 Vol 19

Christine Baranski tells Stephen Colbert who hated dancing on 'Mamma Mia'

If you’re watching the cinematic perfection that’s Mamma Mia! or its wonderful sequel Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, it seems that everybody onscreen is having a greater time than you or I might think about.

However in accordance with the elegant Christine Baranski, who performs the outstandingly glam Tanya “Does Your Mom Know” Chesham-Leigh within the movies, the exuberant dancing required in each movies was not everybody’s glass of prosecco. Particularly, the three male leads.

“I don’t suppose he’ll thoughts my saying this, however all three actors, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan [Skarsgård], they simply hated having to do the dance stuff,” Baranski advised Stephen Colbert on The Late Present on Wednesday. “Pierce was recreation, he would skip down the hill a number of instances doing ‘Dancing Queen.’ This was James Bond and he’s dancing, ‘Yooou can daaance.’ I believe Colin Firth meant all of his strikes sarcastically.

“However Stellan hated it. We lastly went down the hill in ‘Dancing Queen’ and landed on the dock. It was the tip of the quantity, and the digicam would transfer round, and it might often keep away from Stellan. However then lastly, Ol Parker, this glorious, expensive director, he mentioned, ‘OK, it is time in your shut up. You’ve got to do the strikes now.’ And he set free with a string of expletives. It’s as if Ol had requested him to do Arabic poetry whereas leaping rope.”

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